There are many great cultural events in Budapest.

By attending a folklore show, enjoying a Danube cruise or by seeing an Opera performance you may enrich your visit!

- Danube day cruise

- Danube night cruise

- Folklore Show

- Danube Symphony Orchestra

- Dinner & boat Cruise

- Organ Concert in St. Anne Church

- Hungarian State

Opera House

- Palace of Arts

- Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music

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Cultural Programs

There are many great cultural events in Budapest. By attending a folklore show, enjoying a Danube Cruise or seeing an Opera performance you may enrich your visit! Please find below the list of the most recommended cultural programs. I am happy to make reservations for you - just let me know what you would like to see!

ENJOY BUDAPEST - THE CULTURAL CAPITAL OF HUNGARY!

Danube Cruises

Duna Bella Daytime Cruise

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Duna Bella is a daytime sightseeing cruise on the Danube. The boat tour departs from the center of Budapest. During the trip you are guided by the two parts of the city as "Buda" and "Pest" are telling you their fabulous stories about the charming curiosities along the river. This dialogue ends at Margaret Island, where you have the possibility to participate in a one hour walking tour. (To skip Margaret Island tour: stay on board! The ship stops only for 5 minutes. Those who are walking, will return with the next boat.) Following the island break the boat turns towards the town again, but the show is not over yet. The final 15 minutes is full of suprises!

Danube Legend is an evening sightseeing cruise on the river Danube, combined with a sound and vision show. The boat departs from the center of Budapest and makes an hour round trip in the city. While you are enchanted by the illuminated sights, famous Hungarian historical personalities, kings, queens, poets, inventors even the Danube tells you legendary stories about the town. Throught TV screens - hanged everywhere on board - you will be able to look behind the walls of the buildings passing by, to admire the hidden interiors. The program ends with the Blue Danube
waltz which will whisper in your ears anytime you will remember the tour.

The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble (Budai Vigadó), the Danube Folk Ensemble and Rajkó Folk Ensemble (in the Danube Palace) are three of the best Hungarian folk ensembles with the longest tradition (the first one was formed in 1951, and the second one in 1957), which have performances all around the country and abroad. All the three of the Ensembles consist of 30 artists. Their choreographies are based on authentic dances. Some of them were collected in isolated villages and date back hundreds of years. Through the performed dances you can get a broad view of the music, dance and costume heritage of Hungary and the Hungarian inhabited areas.

Music always had a special place in the Hungarian culture. The country’s unique folklore traditions, its numerous world famous composers and musicians had great influence in the European music life inspiring numerous foreign composers and artists.

Now you have the chance to experience this one of a kind harmony with the guidance of the country’s best performers. The show combines all the captivating elements of Classical, Operetta, Hungarian folk and Gypsy music, forming a truly exciting and precious event. One of the most famous Hungarian classical music ensembles, the Danube Symphony Orchestra is leading the performance, accompanied by professional ballet dancers for a more complex and vivid experience.

The program also features operetta performances by the soloists of the world-famous Budapest Operetta Theatre.

To make the experience more colourful, a special Hungarian instrument, the cimbalom will be introduced. It is a truly unique traditional stringed instrument, which provides perfect harmony, accompanying the grand symphonic orchestra. We would also like to show you the Hungarian folk music heritage, by featuring traditional folk song adaptations performed by an authentic Gypsy ensemble

(at 19,00 and 22,00h)
Budapest is said to be the only real Danube capital.
No doubt, the river which flows right through its heart, the illuminated bridges at night, the Parliament building and the Royal Palace give Budapest an unparalleled atmosphere.
We would like to invite you to see the Danube capital in the romantic atmosphere of a dinner by candlelight surrounded by the friendly lights of the Danube capital.
After the end of the performance in the Duna Palota (Danube Palace) or the Budai Vigado, our hostesses will accompany you to the Kossuth Museum-Ship built in 1913. There you can visit the exhibition, which will give you an overview of the history of navigation in Hungary in the 20th century. (Did you know that some of the submarines of the Austro-Hungarian Royal Navy were built in Budapest until 1918?). The exhibition was prepared by the State Transport Museum of Budapest. Nowadays, besides the exhibition, the ship also houses the elegant “Vénhajó” Restaurant.

Following the visit to the museum-ship you will be welcomed on board of one of our air-conditioned ships, which will take you on a one-hour-long cruise with an excellent warm buffet-dinner. In the romantic candlelight atmosphere you can enjoy the wonderful view of the city swimming in light. After dinner you can also admire the panorama from the open upper deck of the ship.
On Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, when the Hungarian folk dance performance takes place in the Budai Vigado, the program starts with the cruise and dinner, and finishes with the visit to the exhibition on the Kossuth Museum-Ship. The end of the tour is there, on the Pest side of the Danube. On request our hostesses can call a taxi for you at the end of the tour. You can book the DINNER & CRUISE with a visit to the Kossuth Museum-Ship separately from the Hungarian folk dance performance or the Danube Concert, too. In that case, when booking your tickets, you will be informed about which place to come to at 21.30: to the Duna Palota (Danube Palace, Zrínyi utca 5.) or the Budai Vigado (Corvin tér 8.).
The DINNER & CRUISE program is also available without dinner. If you book a cruise only with drinks, you can enjoy the beautiful night panorama over a glass of champagne and another glass of soft drink, wine or beer.

The St. Anne Church makes home for our organ-concert series. The St. Anne Church is one of the most beautiful baroque buildings of Budapest. The construction of the church started in 1740, according to the plans of Kristóf Hamon, and was completed by Mátyás Nepauer in 1761. In the next 200 years the church suffered from wars, floods and earthquakes, even it was planned to be demolished, owing to the construction of the metro network. Fortunately this plan was not realised, and the church was reconstructed between 1970-1984.

The programme of the concert was adapted for the organ of this church by Gábor Lehotka, professor of the Academy of Music in Budapest. Anasztázia Bednarik, Miklós Teleki and László Attila Almásy regularly give concerts in Hungary, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.